The state of civil society in Japan
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The state of civil society in Japan
Cambridge University Press, 2003
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- : pbk
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 337-375) and indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
For all the obstacles that remain, civil society is burgeoning in Japan, and the idea of civil society is at the core of the current debate about how to reinvigorate the country. This book gathers the insights of American and Japanese scholars from the fields of political science, sociology, social psychology, and history to investigate the nature of associational life and the public sphere in Japan. It goes beyond assessing the condition of civil society to explore the role of the state in shaping civil society over time, and its broad, comparative framework is useful for thinking about civil society not just in Japan, but elsewhere in the contemporary world. Given its wealth of original research and the uniform strength of its individual chapters, this book will appeal to a broad audience of social scientists, practitioners, and policy-makers.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Part I. Context: 1. What is civil society? Frank Schwartz
- 2. From Meiji to Heisei: the state and civil society in Japan Sheldon Garon
- 3. Capitalism and civil society in postwar Japan: perspectives from intellectual history Andrew Barshay
- Part II. The Associational Sphere: 4. Japan's civil society organizations in comparative perspective Tsujinaka Yutaka
- 5. Molding Japanese civil society: state structured incentives and the patterning of civil society Robert Pekkanen
- 6. After Aum: religion and civil society in Japan Helen Hardacre
- 7. State-society partnerships in the Japanese welfare state Margarita Estevez-Abe
- Part III. The Nonmarket Activities of Economic Actors: 8. Redefining the conservative coalition: agriculture and small business in Japan Robert Bullock
- 9. The death of unions' associational life? Political and cultural aspects of enterprise unions Suzuki Akira
- 10. The struggle for an independent consumer society: consumer activism and the state's response in postwar Japan Patricia Maclachlan
- Part IV. State-Civil Society Linkages: 11. Media and the Internet in the development of civil society in Japan Laurie Freeman
- 12. A tale of two legal systems: prosecuting corruption in Japan and Italy David Johnson
- Part V. Globalization and Value Change: 13. Trust and social intelligence in Japan Yamagishi Toshio
- 14. Building global civil society from the outside in? Japan's development NGOs, the state, and international norms Kim Reimann
- Conclusion: targeting by an activist state: Japan as a civil society model Susan Pharr.
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